Sky Sports activities F1 commentator Martin Brundle believes Lando Norris will “study so much” from his pursuit of this yr’s world championship.
Norris’ sixth-place end on the F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix means Max Verstappen might take the title subsequent outing on the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
After ranging from pole place at Interlagos, Norris misplaced the lead into Flip 1 to George Russell.
The timing of the Security Automotive/purple flag proved pricey as Norris dropped all the way down to fourth, however two errors in a while pushed him all the way down to sixth as he misplaced out to Russell after which Charles Leclerc.
Assessing Norris’ title bid, Brundle instructed Sky Sports activities Information: “It is [about improving] the whole lot on the stage he is at. He is had some wonderful victories and never least in Zandvoort and Singapore the place he simply ran off and hid, slightly bit like Max.
“However he lacks the expertise of difficult for a world championship and I believe that is a complete new set of challenges and guidelines – and that is what he’ll study from this yr.
“Generally you surprise if he lacks the killer intuition up in opposition to Max, who we all know could be fairly brutal in fight.
“However I believe Lando will study so much from this season, and Max successful seven of the primary 10 races just about put him out of attain actually.”
Forward of the grand prix, Brazil the turning level within the championship that Norris wanted.
He was set to line up on pole, with Verstappen down in seventeenth as he served his engine penalty.
Nevertheless, it didn’t materialise with Verstappen almost sure together with his fourth drivers’ title.
“If you happen to add all that up collectively, Lando wanted to take a piece of factors out of Max each single race and hope that there was his team-mate and a Ferrari or two, and even a Mercedes or two, between them,” he added.
“However one turnaround, like in Brazil, and that little escapade was over by and huge until lots of weird issues occur now within the last races.”
